Alma College Choirs Present Festival of Carols in Midland, Alma
The combined Alma College Choirs will ring in the Christmas season
with their annual performance of the Festival of Carols in Midland and
Alma.
More than 180 singers will share the stage and fill the air with the
songs of the Christmas season during the holiday performances at two
locations.
• The choirs will perform at the Midland Center for the Arts at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6. Tickets can be reserved directly from the MCFTA
Box Office at (800) 523-7649. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for
students.
• Performances at the Remick Heritage Center on the Alma College campus
will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8 and Saturday, Dec. 9 and 3
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. Tickets for the campus performances are $10 for
adults and $3 for students and children. Call (989) 463-7304 for ticket
information.
The Alma Women's Glee Club, College Chorale and Alma College Choir will
perform along with some smaller groups. “Scots on the Rocks” and
“Pretty in Plaid” will sing a contemporary harmonization of familiar
carols, and members of the Alma College Percussion Ensemble will
perform.
The choirs will perform traditional, sacred Christmas music such as
“The Holly and the Ivy,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “O Come All Ye
Faithful,” “I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In," as well as some less
well-known carols like “Huron Carol,” “March of the Kings” and “O Yule
Full of Gladness.”
“The secular music of Christmas is not part of the Festival of Carols;
we concentrate on the carols that tell the Christmas story, and we
leave Santa, Frosty and Rudolph for the radio stations,” said Will
Nichols, Secrest Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Alma
College.
The performance at the Midland Center for the Arts has become an annual tradition, said Nichols.
“We have been pleased to have wonderful audiences in Midland in past
years, and we expect another large and enthusiastic audience this
year,” he said.
Nichols thanks the volunteers of the Midland Memorial Presbyterian
Church for stepping up again this year to provide dinner for all the
Alma students.
“They will prepare a wonderful meal for us and let us use their
classrooms to change from everyday college clothes to concert
uniforms,” he said.
The real challenge of the program is moving nearly 200 students to
Midland. The College has chartered three busses and a rental truck and
will use several College vans to execute the mass exodus to Midland.
Posted: Tue, November 21st, 2006 at 3:18PM
